Grouper Developers Forum

[Jim Fox <>]

Sun's own documentation says not to try to use connection pooling with
TLS.  Ignoring that I've tried many times to get it to work, both with
grouper and with a shib 1.3 IdP.  All without success.  The VT library
works just fine right out of the box.

Jim


On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 06:53 -0700, Michael R. Gettes wrote:
> I thought the issue of the JNDI adapter was resolved some time
> ago to allow for connection pooling?  This involved the setting
> of an environment variable in the grouper code enabling the pooling
> built into the sun code.  I also believe the sun jndi does support
> ssl and connection pooling for ssl.  What leads you to believe it
> doesn't?  What am i missing?
> 
> /mrg
> 
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 17:05, Jim Fox wrote:
> 
> > (this is my initial look, not RLBob's)
> >
> > We are looking at Grouper as a possibly registry for our groups  
> > service,
> > presently supported by an LDAP directory and a RESTful webservice.  
> > We're
> > testing and planning, not yet installing.  These are some random  
> > issues
> > we've encountered.  Not complaining, just thought I'd let you know.
> >
> > 1) Jndi source adapter
> >
> > The jndi classes from Sun do not support ldap connections using ssl or
> > tls very well.  They do not support connection pooling, thereby  
> > causing
> > a lot of connection overhead.  We wrote a source adapter using the  
> > ldap
> > library from virginia tech - the one used by shibboleth.  It works  
> > quite
> > a bit more efficiently.
>